'Jeopardy!' champ Amy Schneider has perfect response to anti-trans comments

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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This lady is a great jeopardy champion and is fun to watch. I love her response to these assholes

Link to tweet

"I'd like to thank all the people who have taken the time, during this busy holiday season, to reach out and explain to me that, actually, I'm a man," Schneider began.

"Every single one of you is the first person to make that very clever point, which had never once before crossed my mind," she concluded the tweet, which has been pinned to the top of her feed.

While Schneider's tweet has garnered much support, amassing thousands of retweets and comments as well as 34,000 likes, it was a response from Broadway star Harvey Fierstein that wowed her most.

"Can this statement by Amy S be improved upon? I don’t think so! I couldn’t be prouder if she were my own daughter," the four-time Tony Award winner replied. A shocked Schneider responded. "I… I can’t even process this. Am I dreaming? Thank you so much!"

Again, this lady is a true champion and is an amazing person and I love Harvey Fierstein's reaction

[ms liberty]

1. You go girl - way to tell them!

[MagickMuffin]

2. Did you mean Harvey Fierstein and not Weinstein's?

Just wanting to make sure!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Sorry-I have corrected

[Probatim]

10. I read Weinstein after it was corrected and my brain went dark.

Again, after you corrected it.

Must be tough to be a Harvey in Hollywood these days.

[Hekate]

3. Smiling here

[olegramps]

4. Her knowledge is something to be admired whatever her sexual identity.

I would suppose that many if not the vast majority of those with the nasty comments are probably God fearing souls. I really wonder if these so-called Christians have actually ever read the New Testament. The only encounter that Jesus had was with the woman accused of adultery who the crowd was gathering rock to stone to death. He when asked if he agreed with the stoning he responded saying "He without sin cast the first stone." Who gave me the right to pass judgement in such a case.

[questionseverything]

8. Jesus showed angry in the temple and whipped out the money changers

[olegramps]

14. Sorry, but don't understand the connection. He was reacting to the misuse of religion to make money.

[questionseverything]

20. Just an example that it wasn't his only encounter

My clumsy attempt to back up your point that
Jesus was all about love and forgiveness

[olegramps]

21. This is why I admire this Board. I appreciate everyone's input.

I was making reference to the subject of sexual issues and should have been more clear.

[Cha]

5. Rt TY!

[nolabear]

7. Yes Ma'am! Brush 'em off.

Just what they deserve.

[LoisB]

11. Well, golly gee. I've got to get out more or something. It never occurred to me to consider that

she is anything other than she presented herself to be - a woman, and I don't care how she got there. I will never understand people who want to be all up in someone else's panties unless they want to get to "know" (in the Biblical sense) that person. Is she smart? Yes. Did she win a lot of money? Yes. You go girl is all I have to say.

[SCantiGOP]

12. Why in the hell are people concerned about others sexuality?

I grew up in a small town in SC during the 50s and 60s, meaning I was as homophobic as everyone else around me when I was a kid.
I had a friend who never actually came out in High School, but it was obvious to me that he was not physically interested in girls.
I thought a lot about it in my puberty-obsessed mind, and realized that, if I had been as attracted to other boys as I was to girls, I would not be able to deny it and would definitely be gay.

Funny postscript: I ran into that friend at our 10 year High School reunion, and he told me he was in what he hoped was a lifelong relationship with a man he had met a few years earlier. At some point, he asked me if I knew that he was gay when we were hanging out in school. He got a great laugh by my response, which was, "Hell, we didn't have gays in South Carolina in 1970." He agreed, because he certainly couldn't have admitted it then, and we had a toast to how far society was beginning to move on that issue.

[GoodRaisin]

13. In understanding their "concern" the first step is understanding that those people are bullies.

Bullies who have to have someone to pick on in order to make themselves feel good, so they choose someone who is doing no harm to anyone.

[twodogsbarking]

15. Where I grew up there was an expression that works well in this situation.

Fuck y'uns all. I will never be on Jeopardy.

[CTyankee]

16. I told a friend of my husband that he didn't know what he was talking about...he said

that Amy and other trans people are being so "PC" and he said it with a sneer.

I told him he didn't know what he was talking about and that I had a transgendering grandchild and he started in ("Was he born a boy?" in a nasty way). That was it! Enough!

I hung up on him.

We will talk to him again after he apologizes and says he needs more education about transgendering.

We all do. In the meantime, let him stew...

[kentuck]

17. She is a genius!

And a great champion!

[panader0]

18. I get the feeling that the only thing that will knock her off the show

will be a desire to go home. She has a remarkable range of knowledge.

[musette_sf]

19. The only thing I question Amy about

is *SIMON & GARFUNKEL*???? REALLY???

Admitted, I am an addict for lo these almost 60 (!) years, and all I needed to see was "1957" and "church" to know the correct response. Besides, S&G met in school (not at temple) 4 years earlier.

[BeckyDem]

22. +1!